{"id":35350,"date":"2019-01-28T07:01:51","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T11:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=35350"},"modified":"2019-01-28T08:41:54","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T12:41:54","slug":"st-thomas-aquinas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2019\/01\/st-thomas-aquinas-2\/","title":{"rendered":"St Thomas Aquinas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Aquinas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-35351 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Aquinas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"308\" height=\"381\" \/><\/a>Today, 28 January, on the Novus Ordo calendar, is the liturgical memorial of Saint Thomas of\u00a0Aquino, priest of the Order of Preachers and Doctor of the Church. The young Thomas\u00a0was educated as a Benedictine Oblate by the monks\u00a0at the venerable abbey at Monte Cassino. Despite his family\u2019s opposition, he joined the newly founded Dominicans and studied under St Albert the Great. He is known to have been gifted by God with significant\u00a0gifts of intellect. Aquinas was known as the Doctor Communis and the\u00a0Doctor Angelicus.<\/p>\n<p>The Doctor Communis is recalled by many for his\u00a0<i>Summa Theologiae. <\/i>This work is prefaced as an \u201cinstruction for beginners,\u201d written\u00a0not\u00a0for the smartest of the students at Paris, but for the average Dominican friar. I am trying to imagine what a work for the smartest would look like. Among his other accomplishments he was invited by Blessed Pope Gregory X\u00a0to participate in the Second Ecumenical Council of Lyon; Aquinas died on 7 March 1274\u00a0while making\u00a0the journey in\u00a0the Cistercian Abbey Fossanova in Lazio, while giving a commentary on the Song of Songs. On this day his body was translated to Toulouse.<\/p>\n<p>You may be interested in reading GK Chesterton&#8217;s 1932 essay, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chesterton.org\/st-thomas-aquinas\/\">St. Thomas Aquinas<\/a>,&#8221; in <em>The Spectator<\/em>, which led to his book on the friar saint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, 28 January, on the Novus Ordo calendar, is the liturgical memorial of Saint Thomas of\u00a0Aquino, priest of the Order of Preachers and Doctor of the Church. The young Thomas\u00a0was educated as a Benedictine Oblate by the monks\u00a0at the venerable abbey at Monte Cassino. Despite his family\u2019s opposition, he joined the newly founded Dominicans and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2019\/01\/st-thomas-aquinas-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">St Thomas Aquinas<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1938],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35350"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35350"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35355,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35350\/revisions\/35355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}